The Celebrity Archaeology Podcast

CA PODCAST EPISODE 72 - Bea Arthur

In 1971, Arthur was invited by Norman Lear to guest-star on his
sitcom All in the Family, as Maude Findlay, the cousin of Edith
Bunker. An outspoken liberal feminist, Maude was the antithesis
role to the conservative Republican character Archie Bunker, who
described her as a "New Deal fanatic". Nearly 50, Arthur's tart
turn on All in the Family impressed viewers as well as executives
at CBS who, she would later recall, asked "'Who is that girl? Let's
give her her own series.’"